Hi Maria Yes, the idea is to focus first on using the WE as a repository, although they The teachers here) fully intend to start creating WE pages themselves, starting with OLPC lesson plans linked to their curriculum.
I have always been excited about linking the Wikieducator to OLPC. Here in Nauru, where I am helping them with teacher OLPC training for a fast growing OLPC country programme, they have the connectivity that makes this possible, although it's quite slow and thus limited for teacher's use (as opposed to live in the classroom). They have an "XS" school server (OLPC community software) but little content to put on it. It will take a long time for the curriculum development people locally and regionally to come up materials, and in the meantime the teachers can do something about it themselves. They know best what is relevant and what isn't. They use a rich task curriculum in the primary education system here, and it's easy to search the WE and find resources that provides content in ready "learning format", download as PDF (it works fine on an XO) and then upload onto the school server in the correct category (i.e. Rich Task XYZ, Year 2, Week 1, Social Science thread, etc). What I am wondering about is having an offline "mirror" or a "slice" of the wikieducator (a read only snapshot on DVD that could maybe be updated every few months and received by mail). This will great aid the searching of teachers, and open it up to the students - it's simply impracticable for 40 students in a class to access the Internet through a slow (64-128kbps) link, especially as others may also be online. So we need an offline snapshop. The teachers can find quiet times to work online on collaborative development of content etc. I do think the Wikipedia has been released on DVD at times. So why not the WE? I think WE on a flash drive might also be a great idea. It would obviously be a cut down version. In fact the OLPC has collections including a small slice of the Wikipedia on Chemistry that can be installed permanently on the XO, despite the meagre memory. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Wikieducator User page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming Alt. Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maria Droujkova Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2009 12:09 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Offline Wikieducator mirrors and slices On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I'm working on OLPC projects amongst other things, in areas where Internet > access is at a premium. I'm interested in exploring any potential ways to > improve access to the WE - and for that matter other wikis including the > Wikipedia. > > > > For instance, offline mirrors - which might synchronise overnight - regular > "slices" on DVD etc. > > > > I'd be very interested in collaborating on this. David, In some schools I know where kids use computers a lot, they carry things around on usb memory sticks. Is something like that a possibility? -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath our email group http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
